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Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development Create, customize, and optimize your own professional games from scratch with Unity 2021

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801071482
Length 710 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Table of Contents (29) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Our First Level
2. Chapter 1: Designing a Game from Scratch FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity 4. Chapter 3: Working with Scenes and Game Objects 5. Chapter 4: Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder 6. Chapter 5: Importing and Integrating Assets 7. Section 2 – Improving Graphics and Sound
8. Chapter 6: Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph 9. Chapter 7: Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph 10. Chapter 8: Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline 11. Chapter 9: Fullscreen Effects with Postprocessing 12. Chapter 10: Sound and Music Integration 13. Chapter 11: User Interface Design 14. Chapter 12: Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit 15. Chapter 13: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline 16. Section 3 – Scripting Level Interactivity with C#
17. Chapter 14: Introduction to C# and Visual Scripting 18. Chapter 15: Implementing Movement and Spawning 19. Chapter 16: Physics Collisions and Health System 20. Chapter 17: Win and Lose Condition 21. Chapter 18: Scripting the UI, Sounds, and Graphics 22. Chapter 19: Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies 23. Chapter 20: Scene Performance Optimization 24. Section 4 – Releasing Your Game
25. Chapter 21: Building the Project 26. Chapter 22: Finishing Touches 27. Chapter 23: Augmented Reality in Unity 28. Other Books You May Enjoy

Why learn UI Toolkit?

I know this chapter might sound a little bit confusing; we just learned how to use a whole Unity system to create our UI, and now we are learning another one! Why don't we just learn this new one directly?

Well, the first part of the answer is that UI Toolkit is not ready yet, meaning that it doesn't have all the features and stability necessary to use it in real production. Even if we can create our UI without issues in this new system, it is not tested enough to guarantee that it will work well across all the different devices our game can run on (for example, several PC setups and mobile devices).

Another thing to take into account is that, even if the systems were stable enough, it's still a relatively new system, and there are still lots of games under development that were created on older Unity versions that don't support it. This means that in order to land a job in this industry, you need to get a decent amount of exposure to...

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